NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
GOOD WORK IN SOLOMONS AUCKLAND, April 19. The work of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Solomons was praised heartily by Brigadier-Gener-al Francis P. Mulcahy, of the United States Marine Corps, who has arrived in the Dominion. General Mulcahy was stationed at Guadalcanal from December until the beginning of this month, and is in New Zealand to discuss plans for establishing a rest, recreation, and training area for Marine Corps air personnel. “Your boys are doing very well indeed,” he said. “They give us. no anxiety whatever, and their navigation and communication on reconnaissance are excellent.” The ground staff, he added, had settled down well, and was doing very good work under tropical conditions. “We in the Marine Corps feel ourselves most fortunate in having a real . white man’s country within easy distance of a tropical war theatre,” he concluded. “I have just had an opportunity of flying low over some of it. It is a beautiful and rich country and a fine one for our men to rest in.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1943, Page 6
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